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ИСТРАЖУВАЊЕ НА ПЕРФОМАНСОТ ВО ФОЛКЛОРОТ
PERFORMANCE AND FOLKLORE

Author(s): Katerina Petrovska-Kuzmanova
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: folklore; performance; theatre

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary folkloristic researches are widened to verbal genres in the context of the performance, which emphasize the necessity of researching numerous questions of oral poetics. The research of the folklore in this respect has the objective to view the folklore as a system of signs based on two necessarily basic signs: transformation and action, executed in certain moment. In folklore various aspects of the performance do not allow the actor’s initiative, but standardize the actor’s activities instead. The research of the folklore performance poses the question: are there general notions of the scenic performance, in the myth, the ritual, and the play? The research of the issues within the project should show that: the performance is present in all genres of folklore, during the realization we should search for the types whose nature can be subjected to a presentation in front of an audience; performative elements of the folklore have two aspects: the first one is about the communication link between the recipient and the performer, as well as the ways of presentation, the second one is about the presence of the theatrical elements in folk genres. Understanding the performance’s process becomes one of the ways to understand the process of human making of the culture. Cultural plays are processors of symbolical material that gives them their definite form. In this process, folklore will be researched as a communication process that becomes active in the moment when the audience accepts the convention of the mise en scène and every element in it becomes important.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 158-166
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Macedonian
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